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Roswell Magill's regular occupation is teaching. After a year's apprenticeship in a Chicago law firm, he took on an instructorship at the University of Chicago, and after a brief interlude as a Government revenue attorney moved to Columbia in 1924. A pioneer investigator of Federal taxation and the author of several standard textbooks, he is a recognized authority on how to avoid taxes as well as how to levy them. Yet with all Roswell Magill's professorial background Congressmen like and trust him. Once when he appeared before a committee the Congressmen were so impressed...
...aldermen, country squires, judges, surgeons. Nuffield's father was a Hurst's Grammar School man, but the great philanthropist himself attended only the village school. Hurst's Grammar School never ranked with Eton, but Nuffield many years ago bought it and converted it into his motor firm's offices. Now he owns it, and no 011 Etonian's son owns Eton. For his home he bought the neighboring manor house. According to Viscount Nuffield: "The only true story in the press blurbs about me is that in 1921 I slashed the prices...
...LADY AND THE PANDA-second book on the list of an ambitious new Manhattan firm, Carrick & Evans...
...testify that some nights Mrs. Nieman "would drink half a bottle (of gin), some nights a full bottle. . . ." No one could guess why Mrs. Nieman wanted Harvard to have her money, reputedly $5,000,000, and even Harvard's President James Bryant Conant shied off a bit, firm in the conviction that Harvard wanted no journalism school...
...German-born wood turner named John Jacob Bausch, he went tc work selling spectacles in partnership with one Henry Lomb. When Founder Bausch'< son, Edward, learned to fashion microscopes, and sell them, too, Bausch & Lomb began to prosper. Smart Edward Bausch established contacts with the famed German firm of Carl Zeiss in 1890 and before long Bausch & Lomb was using Zeiss patents with exclusive rights to the U. S. market. Shortly thereafter Zeiss bought one-fifth of Bausch & Lomb stock and warmed by increasing royalties from Rochester, began schooling Bausch & Lomb technicians in the laboratory in Germany...